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Even the good guys dodged snipers in the mean streets of Chicago’s Cabrini Green Housing development. As gangs took over cops banded together to disarm them. This is their story.
Denver CO and Elkhorn WI – Forty years ago the Cabrini Green Housing development was overrun by gangs and plagued by brazen snipers who fired randomly on residents and even first responders. History of Street Cops: Gangs Guns and Cabrini Green Housing Snipers tells the story of that dangerous time from the perspective of a police officer who survived the melee. The new non-fiction book is published by Outskirts Press.
Snipers aren’t just a wartime phenomenon: In Chicago of the 1960s and 1970s it was also a harsh reality. In 1970 Sergeant James Severin and Officer Anthony Rizzato were murdered by snipers at Cabrini Green Housing Units of Chicago. Lawless snipers had been brazenly firing on police residents firemen – anyone in their sights every day.
Eight years later Greg Zito and his partners worked the Cabrini Green Housing area arresting gang members and in four years confiscated more than 660 various types of weapons. The team arrested five snipers firing at residents the police and firemen at different times and locations. He and his fellow police officers survived their years as Chicago police officers. Zito tells his compelling and harrowing story in History of Street Cops.
The new true crime book details how Zito and his fellow officers used search warrants to bring police into the path of ruthless Chicago gangs; how they recovered hundreds of deadly weapons from these gang members; the sniper attacks they endured while fighting to dismantle the gangs’ arsenal; the tactics of uniformed and plain-clothes officers; and other incredible tales of life on the mean streets of Chicago’s gang land. Greg Zito’s page-turning real story will have readers riveted.
History of Street Cops: Gangs Guns and Cabrini Green Housing Snipers is available online through Outskirts Press at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore. The book is sold through Amazon and Barnes and Noble for a maximum trade discount in quantities of 10 or more and is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the non-fiction true crime and espionage categories.
ISBN: 978-1-4787-3753-7 Format: 5 x 8 paperback cream Retail: $19.95
Genre: Non-Fiction / True Crime / Espionage
For more information about History of Street Cops visit the book page at the author’s webpage www.OutskirtsPress.com/chicagopolice.
About the Author: Greg Zito started his career as a teenager joining the U.S. Army as a military police officer with the duty of town patrol. On his return to Chicago he was hired as a Chicago Transit Authority police officer then a Chicago police officer.
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